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We would like to thank Eric Maskin for inviting us to publish the work covered in this survey in a collection of the World Scientific Series in Economic Theory edited by Eric. An early version of this essay appeared as an introduction in Bergemann and Morris (2012b). We would like to thank our co-authors Hanming Fang, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Karl Schlag, Satoru Takahashi and Olivier Tercieux in this research agenda and Nemanja Antic, Andreas Blume, Tilman Borgers, Jacques Cremer, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Phil Reny and Olivier Tercieux for comments on this essay. We had the opportunity to deliver the present material at a number of invited lectures, notably at Boston University, Northwestern University and the European and North American Econometric Society Meetings and a set of slides which cover and accompany this essay can be found at http://dirkbergemann.commons.yale.edu/files/2010/12/robustmechanismdesign1.pdf.